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...Islanders know that, but they're in a no-win position. As favorites, the best they can do is win, like they are supposed to. The worst they can do is lose succumb to the pressure and fall apart. It's a common phenomenon--the Rangers were called chokers more than once in the early...
Meanwhile, the members of the association exchange doubts and suspicions. They show signs of addiction to amphetamines Quentin gives them as part of mystical rites that have become central to the Autobiographical Association. Their struggles for sanity and survival as they succumb to Quentin's mysterious manipulations--part of an elaborate con-game--become farcical and charming. Spark's talent for dialogue and vacuous wit blooms, fertilized by the increasingly hilarious improbable set of characters and situations...
...eagle and a coyote-Grouse all the time -Killed enough meat for the two guides to get married on-" The years pass the tallies mount. Noble critters are immortalized by his marksmanship in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Africa. Off Key West and Cuba, tons of tarpon, swordfish and sharks succumb to his brawn, will and, at one point his tommy gun. He boasts of bagging 122 enemies in combat, outboxing the biggest man on Bimini and having intercourse three times on his 50th birthday. He furnishes his editor and pubisher with exact counts of his word production...
...violence may allow it to continue. The Rhodesian climate--social, economic and ethical--obviated passive resistance as a successful method to end the subjugation of its Blacks; to abolish the inequity, violence was necessary. Now, Kauna warns, South African whites must decide by which measure they wish to succumb. For as this leader has now proven twice in his lifetime, the advocates of minority rule in Black Africa will inevitably face a day of reckoning
Some have said the Steelers are getting old and can't perform physically as well as they used to. Perhaps, but old age was not the major reason, injury was. The Steelers have suffered heavily from injuries all season, a blow to which they inevitably had to succumb. Quarterback Bradshaw, ailing from two injured wrists and a weak knee, has either played handicapped or been sidelined most of the season. Franco Harris, Pittsburgh's top running back and a 1,000 yard rusher for seven of the past eight seasons has also been out much of the season. Harris only...